Here’s what many successful people don’t tell you.
The lifestyle that they live after becoming successful/rich/worthyinsomeway isn’t necessarily the same one as before.
You ask a billionaire about advice, and the first thing he starts preaching about is to believe in god, have a trusty spouse, good money management, and invest early in talented individual.
You’d think ‘Sure, the advice seems legit, and if I follow it, I bet I’ll make money even if not billions.’
However, after you try such a lifestyle, you find that the only thing you gained is an extra hole in your pocket, draining your savings without any results to show for it.
And this is the reason why I respect Alex Hormozi more than other gurus in the field, because first of all, he’s self-made, so his advice can be applied to most average joes out there.
And most important of all, he never hides how much he works/worked to be where he is right now.
I assure, everyone who earned their wealth/power/whatever worked their asses off to make it there. The only difference being that some of them enjoyed the work, so it didn’t feel difficult at all.
Rather, some are so disconnected as to not realized that not everyone can work twelve-sixteen hours a day, so they don’t even mention it as part of their advice.
Yes, you’ve heard that right. To make something out of your life (especially when it comes to earning material gains), you only need two things.
First, incredible focus (ability to put in sixteen hours a day of work in whatever endeavor you’re pursuing, and putting everything else on the side for that goal)
Second, having the outcome independence and abundance mentality, which are necessary to discern what pursuits are worth pursuing, and when your efforts are better spent elsewhere.
Many people don’t like this truth.
And the minority, who begrudgingly accepts it, goes around trying to find projects/skills that they enjoy so that the work doesn’t feel like work.
However, that’s like feeding a chicken nothing but sawdust, then begging it everyday for eggs. In this example, the chicken is physically unable to support its reproductive functions on such a diet, and it’d be a miracle if it doesn’t die within a week.
That’s the same for you. Instead of trying to find a skill you enjoy, try to enjoy the skill you find yourself most suitable for.
For some people, the circumstances and their previous talents and environment bring them closer to certain lines of work, and as long as that skill could give them the kind of lifestyle that they’re looking for, then it’s worth incorporating into ‘yourself’.
You should just reprogram yourself to enjoy hard-work, and enjoy whatever skill you need to learn for the moment. After a while, the process will become so easy that you find yourself doing whatever needs to be done, whenever it needs to.
So, don’t be hard on yourself.
Instead, destroy yourself, and be someone else! Greater, and more enchanting than ever before!
The previous posts will help you to achieve this.
Today’s recommended reading: Holyland
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So today I ran some calculations, and this pace isn’t good at all. I might need to get rid of more unnecessary habits (doom scrolling, reading comments on youtube and some useless habits that serve nothing but dopamine). Thankfully, my current mental state is disillusioned with cheap dopamine, and video games aren’t fun at all. I’ll tell you tomorrow how close I got to finishing the 1000 lectures that I need to, because today’s pace wasn’t good enough. Peace out.